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The barrier guards at the Large Hadron Collider stumble upon a mysterious discovery that forces them to pauseand question everything they thought they knew, if only for a moment.

Genre: Sci-Fi
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Memory Survivalby  Steven Burton
Two men are in a loving long-term relationship. The beautiful, shared memory of their past together provides relief from the current challenges of dementia.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Love And The Old Hotelby  Jason Kirman
Sarah is a successful realtor in New York, before Christmas she receives a task from her boss to sell an old hotel in a small town, but things do not go according to plan. She meets Jim, the owner of the hotel, who does not want to sell.

Genre: Romance
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Gone With The Gulf Streamby  Jack Sherry
A military chemical dump in Florida's Panhandle is more than just an environmental disaster. When a deadly bacterial outbreak kills marine life and divers in the Gulf of Mexico, a young woman must escape government cover-ups and corporate corruption after losing her boyfriend and father figure to the contaminated waters.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Developingby  Steven Burton
After a man develops several old 35mm. rolls of film, he discovers links to the past, present, and future.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cheers To Temptationby  Maria
When a husband's solemn promise to abstain from alcohol clashes with his wife's celebratory mood at a bar, he must navigate a hilarious game of temptation and wit as he tries to conceal his relapse, only to find that his clever wife is one step ahead in this uproarious battle of wills. Low Budget, 1 interior location. Tiny Cast.

Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Devious Desiresby  Melissa Diane Hudson
An unhappy married man wants out of his boring marriage and craves excitement in his life, so he begins online dating and meets a beautiful, but mysterious woman who only desires to rob and kill him.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Dream Come Trueby  Frank Charles Scott
A thrilling suspenseful story filled with deception and betrayal as Michael gets entangled in a web of deceit while gaslighting his wife and daughter to run off with her money to skip the light fantastic with his Mistress.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Two fishermen visit a secluded lake where they hope to catch the big one. Instead, they encounter a mysterious lake creature known as Zarya. (1 location, 3 actors. Top 20 Horror Short on Coverfly's The Red List. Finalist, Atlanta Film Festival & Nashville Film Festival screenwriting competitions.)

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Doctor Where?by  Elliot Stanton
Ralph's doctor is running late for an appointment, leaving him regretting a rash decision.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Parkin' 'ellby  Elliot Stanton
A rainy afternoon and a full hospital car park push a family into escalating conflict, culminating in the discovery that their struggle was entirely avoidable.

Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Glue Storyby  Ron Brawer
A secluded bench in an urban park. A chance meeting: two women with secrets. Who's who? What's true? And why the glue?

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sisters of St. Andrewby  Vince Grittani
On the eighteenth hole of a golf course, a wily rabbi, a competitive priest, and two mischievous nuns collide in a battle of faith, guilt, and golf when one sister tries to secretly fulfill her late father's outrageous dying wishspreading his ashes in the sand trap.

Genre: Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Would-Be's Are on the Anvilby  John Porter
A young woman from India and a young man of Indian extraction from America don't want to go along with the marriage their parents have arranged for them--until they meet and fall in love. Then their parents fight and call off the wedding.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Cage For Twoby  Darryl N. Layne
After a desperate ex-con's botched robbery, he and his assumed lover are abducted by aliens who demand they become specie's in their galactic zoo-only to discover that his mate isn't who he expected, and a lifetime with her is now his fate.

Genre: Sci-Fi
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Crossing Armageddonby  Peyton Burkhart
An angelic warrior attempts to rally a small ragtag troop of soldiers to battle a demon horde to settle an ancient score. Help arrives in a most unusual way, in form of a most unusual savior.

Genre: Fantasy
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Shapes and Coloursby  Craig Ford
After a brief moment of forbidden tenderness reignites his buried humanity, a gay concentration-camp prisoner must choose between suppressing his desire to surviveor risking death by claiming love in a place built to destroy it.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Weekend at the Monasteryby  Mike Skidmore
Mike Dray decides to go to a MONASTERY to learn what he can about reincarnation after discovering through hypnosis that he has a past life and maybe even more.

Genre: Fantasy
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Butt Crack Innby  Kenneth M. Kielty
Butt Crack Bar is a script in the Bar Whore Trilogy Set in NYC and the Florida, a middle-aged writer must visit his agent. She rips into her client's writing and strongly suggests he visit her home in Florida to do his rewrites. She mentions it is a nudist resort. The community consists of aging residents, a one breasted property manager and overly attractive bar maids.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Last Gameby  John Klawitter
Pregnant, Sandy has to give away her baby before she is executed tomorrow.

Genre: Drama
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Running Moneyby  Dewayne C Bricker
When a broke single mother discovers stolen bank cash hidden inside her apartment wall, she and her little girl go on the runpursued by the violent ex-con who buried it there and will stop at nothing to reclaim what he thinks is still his.

Genre: Drama
34 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
FIREWOOD - is a comedic short play small cast about an entertainer who gets fired twice from an ageist, racist, homophobic theme park run by a tyrannical, paranoid boss with a Napoleonic complex who makes money exploiting young girls and boys aspiring to be actors.

Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Two expectant mothers share their precious last moments together as they prepare for the end of the world.

Genre: Drama
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Deadly Wormsby  Kline Fishborn
A company that is developing a secret weapon for the US military, but something goes wrong, the experimental worms break free and start killing innocent people.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Labor of Loveby  John Porter
A young woman teases her fianc until she discovers he's willing to do almost anything to make her happy.

Genre: Romance
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Plumber's Mateby  Elliot Stanton
A barrister's hypocrisy is set to provoke a miscarriage of justice. A loose tongue from a man of law encourages an eyewitness to a robbery to bend the truth to fit his own morals.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Only If You Dareby  Philip C. Sedgwick
When a journalist and a consultant for brothels meet to discuss upcoming sex worker legislation, the world around them challenges their sensibilities and desires.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Heartwarming Horrorby  Jennifer Milne
A couple on a first date realize the premise of a heartwarming romance could just as easily be a horrifying horror movie, and get a little of both when they go back to her place.

Genre: Horror
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Green Dangerby  John Witcher
A science experiment goes wrong and creates one of the most sinister villains of a lifetime.

Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Gina's Veilby  Kevin Silva
A lonely, facially scarred woman discovers that a charming writer has been sneaking into a private spot on her farm to complete his novel.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A tech-bro's wife who discovers he secretly chipped her brain giving her unusual abilities has to fight to survive when agents of the 'company' come to delete her.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
An obsolete radio escapes into a world of drugs to find solace from a fast moving society he cannot keep up with.

Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Medium of Exchangeby  Steven Blows
When money begins to talk to a frugal cashier, he discovers with extraordinary consequences that he has the power to bend its controlling influence to his will.

Genre: Comedy
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Thanks, Lucindaby  John Porter
A family romance in which two thirteen-year-olds try to work up the courage to invite each other to a high school dance.

Genre: Family
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Not for Saleby  Davide Staffiero
During a business dinner at a luxury hotel, a man who will turn out to be an android dealer negotiates with a wealthy hotelier determined to replace his entire staff.

Genre: Sci-Fi
36 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A couple's illicit affair is forced to go virtual due to a pesky global pandemic, and if that wasn't bad enough someone else wants in on the action.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Yoo-foesby  John Porter
A young journalist tries to discover whether UFOs and space aliens really do exist.

Genre: Sci-Fi
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Incarnationsby  Bob Messinger
A young man fears for his sanity and love relationship as disturbing episodes from his youth come back to haunt him.

Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Spiral Stairsby  Alex M. Garnett
A retired seamstress struggles to remain of value to the young college students she lives among in a studio apartment building with a macabre past.

Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Cute Robberby  Grag Raymond
Nick works as a security guard in a jewelry store during his break he is relaxing in a local cafe when a pretty girl approaches him to get to know him but it was a deception she joins a crime group to commit a robbery.

Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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